Hey nostr:npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 Thanks for the Zap, I made a point to listen to the whole talk. It was good!
I agree with about 95%!
Couple interesting take aways, and experiences.
While helping someone sign up on android, we essentially just picked an app at random on the Android App Store after searching for Nostr, It just so happened that the app we chose bugged on his phone and the nsec froze at generation. You could just see the frustration level just climbing. So, I said no worries, just try a different app (you could see the confusion) but we tried it, the nsec was successfully generated and he logged in. I said, hold on a sec, copy that nsec back to the first app and try and login. It worked flawlessly, and with the magic string, suddenly two apps came alive with the exact same account.
A lightbulbs went off. And right there the power of the protocol was showcased.
People tend to be “app overload”, constantly having to “sign up for”, another app another service then remember passwords, etc etc. It comes to a point when a fatigue of trying new apps and siloed services becomes a huge drag. But it’s the paradigm that’s widely understood, it’s how people think about apps on the Internet. Siloes, with each company desperately scrambling for users so they can push advertisements on them and monetize them as a product. Often times, friends / family etc, will ask you to sign up for an app or something just because they’re using it, and to be nice you tend to do it, companies have been using this friend networking effect to build their user bases.
Apps like TikTok even lock their content to a large degree behind this signup wall. It annoys me so much, in protest I refuse to even put the app on my phone.
Nostr is a different paradigm, and I think it has huge potential.
It definitely feels new, and there’s bugs everywhere, but it feels more early days Twitter.
I’d like to see a NIP that has the ability to read the nsec via nfc build into phones. Wear a ring or key fob with your nsec + Face ID or pincode - that can be changed or set. Write out your nsec to nfc cards make backups, etc.
Then simply pickup your phone, install an app, it reads your nfc ring, pop in your pin, and everything is just there and working.
On a computer you could do a similar thing to the web3 wallet connect, to login to many different apps all by keeping your key secure on your finger.
Literally pickup a new phone, open the app and your stuff is there, no passwords or anything.
That’s my vision for the future of this technology.
